Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance
Part 5—Division 1
5-10
Section 19
Cap. 486
request is made (which may be the Chinese
or English language in either case);
(B) a language other than the language specified
in the request or, if no language is so
specified, the language in which the request is
made, if, but only if—
(I) the language in which the data is held is
not the language specified in the request
or, if no language is so specified, the
language in which the request is made,
as the case may be; and (Amended 18 of
2012 s. 12)
(II) subject to section 20(2)(b), the copy is a
true copy of a document which contains
the data;
(iv) without prejudice to the generality of subparagraph
(iii) but subject to subsection (4), be in the form,
or one of the forms, if any, specified in the request;
(v) where subparagraph (iv) is not applicable, in such
form as the data user thinks fit.
(4) Where—
(a) a data access request specifies the form or forms in
which a copy of the personal data to be supplied in
compliance with the request is or are sought; and
(b) the data user concerned is unable to supply the copy
in that form or any of those forms, as the case may be,
because it is not practicable for the data user to do so,
then the data user shall—
(i) where there is only one form in which it is practicable
for the data user to supply the copy, supply the copy in
that form accompanied by a notice in writing informing
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20.4.2018
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